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Is there any way at all that I am able to either pin items to the start menu or place them in a custom quick launch bar.

What I want to do is install windows with a UA cd.

install apps using wpi.

run script/command/registry tweak that will put relavant shortcuts into pinned start menu or custom quick launch, but must apply to all users.

Has anyone managed to do this?

I have been reading for hours and still aint no further forward, am nearly at the point where i am thinking that this can't be done. (and that aint normally m guys)

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This is a script to pin something to the start menu

Dim Act, objPin, PinItem, Shell, SysRoot
Set Shell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
SysRoot = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemRoot%\System32\")
Set PinItem = Shell.Namespace(SysRoot)
Set objPin = PinItem.ParseName("calc.exe")
objPin.InvokeVerb("P&in to Start Menu")

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Thanks GSH. It was really starting to bug me.

One question though. Will that apply to all users or just the logged on user.

If it only applies to the logged on user, is there a way to get it to apply to the default user?

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The pinned Start menu items seem to be recorded here under Favorites in particular:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage

So it might be possible to apply this to all users. I haven't tried it because that's not what I want to do myself.

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Setup the Quick Launch on your current system, then copy C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch to %OEM%\$Docs\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

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